U.S. DETERMINED 10 REMAIN NEUTRAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 10

U.S. DETERMINED 10 REMAIN NEUTRAL

PRESIDENT'S VIEW.

Hopes Congress Will Revise

Legislation.

POSITION OF OTHER NATIONS

United Tress Association.—Copyright.

(Received 10 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 15,

President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, was subjected to numerous questions in an effort to elicit the exact degree of neutrality he contemplates for America. He' said that no plans had even been considered that could be remotely connected with the possibility of the United States getting into a "European war.

He insisted that he hoped Congress' special session would be confined to revision of neutrality.

lhe European war has cost the United States' taxpayers 112,000,000 dollars in the current fiscal year, states the Budget Bureau, which is estimating for further outlay on expansion of the peace-time forces.

The Netherlands' frontier, savs a message from The Hague, has * been closed to all refugees, including Jews. Export of cars and tractors has been forbidden.

It is officially announced that the ciew of four in the German aeroplane which landed near the island of Ameland in Dutch territorial waters stated they had been engaged by British machines over the English Channel and finally were forced to flee. The machine was confiscated and the crew interned in conformity with the regulations for the maintenance of Dutch neutraliiv.

In spite of Sweden's desire to keep up normal trade relations, she cannot send Germany more than half the usual 10.000,000 tons of iron ore annuallv now that the British blockade bars the outlet as in the Great War, says the Stockholm correspondent of " "The Times/'